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DellEMC, one of NC State’s Computer Science e-Partners, will be coming to give a TechTalk called DD BOOST: A Distributed Deduplication API.

The talk will be held in EB2, room 1231 (the usual place); as always, pizza and drinks will be provided!

Here’s an abstract for the talk:

How can you make a backup copy of a 10 Gigabyte file over a 1 Gigabyte/sec network link
at a rate of 6 – 8 Gigabytes/sec without violating the speed of light or other laws of physics?
And how can you store that backup copy on the storage server in as little as 100 Megabytes?
DD BOOST is an Application Programming Interface (API) library that does just that by
supporting distributed deduplication, with client systems performing segmenting and
fingerprinting of file data and the deduplicating storage server system determining which
data needs to be sent to the storage server. By suppressing the transmission of duplicate data,
this results in dramatic increases in throughput compared to writing via NFS with a median
reduction in network traffic of 90 – 99%. This can also reduce the amount of storage space
needed to store backups by a factor of 10 – 100. We will describe how DD BOOST does all of this
and some of our experiences from several years of customer usage.

On September 5th, ACM/AITP will be hosting a Fall 2017 social in Tompkins Hall, room G118 from 6 to 8 PM! Come on out to meet the officers, hang out with other people interested in computing, and otherwise have a great time!

We’ll have light refreshments, drinks and board games! Hope to see you there!

On Thursday, we had Mark S. McDavid and a data science associate at Eastman come and give a talk on SQL, specifically Microsoft SQL Server. Eastman, like most companies, is quite reliant on data extraction and analysis for day to day operations, so SQL knowledge is pretty paramount!

On Tuesday, two representatives from the Vanguard Group came out to speak with us about the
MEAN software bundle and Hadoop,
two technologies that they use every day to build web apps and crunch numbers behind the scene.

Summer Camp IT Specialist

The Southeastern Regional Manager for Summer Camp Operations for Youth Digital is currently hiring Summer Camp IT Specialists for their tech-based camps for kids ages 8-14 in the RDU area. They are partnering with local organizations (http://www.youthdigitalcamps.com/raleighdurham.html) to deliver amazing experiences!

We spend this summer making Kid’s dreams come true. We offer exciting and cutting edge camps to kids ages 8-16 using innovative curriculum with cutting-edge immersion and project based classes. Students will learn from us not only how to code, illustrate, and render, but ultimately how to Create.

This is a paid position. Most camp days run from about 8:30am to 4:30pm (M-F) though some sites do vary. There is online training that can be completed on staff member’s own time as well as one day of onsite training. Both of these are compensated. Staff will complete background screening and need reliable transportation to our partner schools.